PROFILE:

Proven hands on big data architect and data scientist, with leadership experience. Strong written and communication skills with strategic consulting experience at multiple large corporations working with senior executives. Expert in hands on data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, distributed data crunching, performance engineering, data integration, analysis and distributed enterprise software tuning. Manager with 15+ years of team management.

STRENGTHS:

• Architect of analytical platform for ingesting, wrangling and creating pristine petabyte scale datasets for machine learning/artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in production environments.
• Hands on coding in Spark, Python, R and PySpark. Focus on Spark, Yarn/Mesos, Akka, HBase/Cassandra and Kafka stack for big data applications, and data ingestion using tools such as Sqoop and Pig.
• Experienced in AI techniques using natural language processing, deep learning models and inference.
• Expert on large scale, real time ingestion and analytics of data in flight, using a variety of tools such as GPU driven computing.
• Design and lead distributed teams in developing data warehousing and big data solutions using several platforms including Hadoop, Kafka, Spark and other tools.
• Development of supervised and unsupervised statistical methods including logistic regressions, matrix transformations, support vector machines, naïve Bayes, singular value decompositions and Euclidean distance algorithms for recommendations, clustering and classifications on very large distributed data sets.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Big Data Architect, Executive Director, Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and delivered multi - million-dollar cost savings and revenue generation strategies using data science and big data.
• Architect and lead the big data analytics team at Confidential Enterprise Business Intelligence, focusing on data engineering, artificial intelligence, data mining, predictive analysis and machine learning on multi-petabyte data-sets on Hadoop.
• Designed dual direction data ingest/outflows for real time video analytics using Kafka, NiFi, Spark and other tools.
• Lead the initiative for cost effective deployment of big data platform for analytics.
• Tackle and solve seemingly impossible business problems including pricing, customer TV viewing, advertising delivery and operational optimizations using big data.
• Derive and score several predictive metrics to drive operational growth across Confidential and Confidential divisions and departments.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Data Scientist/Big Data program architect, consultant

Responsibilities:

• Big data program architect / data scientist, consultant for Confidential operational, sales and utilization data.
• Lead a team to migrate data using Informatica and Apache technologies from external data sources into a Hadoop cluster for predictive analytics using Mahout and R algorithms.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Data Scientist/Big Data architect, consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data scientist/big data architect in the 7X7 aircraft reliability and safety engineering team at Confidential.
• Completed proof of concept for sensor and aircraft event data ingestion into Hadoop cluster and developed Mahout clustering algorithms using Canopy and KMeans clustering on time series data for normalization and baseline definitions of context dependent sensor value ranges, with visualization in gephi and Tableau.
• Developed map-reduce code for parallel transformation of sensor data from aircraft into Hadoop cluster.
• Created and deployed custom development workstations using HortonWorks and Cloudera Hadoop installations as virtual machines for data scientists.

Confidential, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Strategic analysis, performance engineering, capacity planning and Hadoop related technology development and consulting for clients.
• Served large enterprises in healthcare, staffing and hospitality.
• Designed processes and worked with client teams to load, transform and automate data stores running into several hundred terabytes.
• Clusters built on a combination of MongoDB and HBase distributed data stores with Pig and Mahout front-ends for queries, ranking and clustering data mining activities.
• Used Mahout algorithms for discovering ranking and clustering patterns.
• Implemented MapReduce algorithms in Java for data exploration, classification and recommendation functions.
• Some additional statistical processing and analysis using R on Hadoop distributed clusters.

Confidential, San Jose, California

Vice President, Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Architect of business process management (BPM) product using web services and middleware integrating legacy systems and SAS business intelligence platform for orchestrating optimized business services.
• Managed user interface development team (6 members) to develop networked, message based EAI application.
• Initiated, built and delivered comprehensive web - based customer support tool for internal use using open source technologies.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Chief Technology Officer/VP Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Architect of new generation e - commerce platform for back end real estate transaction management for commercial, residential and retail real estate markets.
• Managed 40 member engineering team to build and maintain the technology. In addition to this team, I outsourced a team in India, effectively giving us a 24 hour development cycle.
• Managed key client implementations to go live using the reez platform, using a process of gathering requirements, designing integration with existing systems, managing the development process, set expectations and deploy final solution.

Confidential, Mountain View, California

Director, FX Products

Responsibilities:

• Managed product development and worldwide product marketing for Foreign Exchange trading system and trading interface tools.
• Software written in C++ on Windows NT and different Unix flavors.

Confidential

Senior Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed sales and technical teams (24 members) at client sites.
• Got clients to go live on FNX risk management systems at multiple sites in Australia and Asia.
• Set up and managed the Australian branch of Confidential .
• Marketed risk management systems in the Australia/New Zealand region.
• Initiated and closed multi-million dollar, global multiple-site sales of front and back office foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity trading systems, one of them the largest sale ever by Confidential .

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Head of commodity and interest rate trading systems development team.
• Managed teams (each with a size of 8-10 engineers) building front and back office trading and risk management systems. Installed completed systems at client sites in North America, Europe and Asia.
• Designed and developed advanced risk management tools like zero curve analysis, sensitivity blotters and multiple simulations.
• Part of team to design and develop trading systems and underlying pricing models for FX and interest rate options, exotics, futures, FRAs, bonds, FRNs, interest rate swaps, currency swaps and other derivatives. Software written in C/C++ for Windows and UNIX environments on Sybase data and replication servers.